Archive for April, 2009

  • About three months ago, I received a broad, easier to grow variety of Cryptocoryne nurii. The plants adapted quickly to cultivation and started robust growth. Last week, I was checking...

    Cryptocoryne nurii spathe

    About three months ago, I received a broad, easier to grow variety of Cryptocoryne nurii. The plants adapted quickly to cultivation and started robust growth. Last week, I was checking...

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  • Late last year I received a plant from Ron Finlayson, a fellow Crypt enthusiast. This plant had been circulating amongst the hobbyist circle as the ‘melt proof Cryptocoryne affinis’. There...

    The melt proof ‘Cryptocoryne affinis’

    Late last year I received a plant from Ron Finlayson, a fellow Crypt enthusiast. This plant had been circulating amongst the hobbyist circle as the ‘melt proof Cryptocoryne affinis’. There...

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  • I’d been growing Lagenandra thwaitesii for a couple of years now, and it had finally decided to start flowering. Unfortunately, we had a cold spell and the plant wilted before...

    Lagenandra thwaitesii spathe

    I’d been growing Lagenandra thwaitesii for a couple of years now, and it had finally decided to start flowering. Unfortunately, we had a cold spell and the plant wilted before...

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  • Look back to the Oct 08 / Nov 08 timeframe to the posts I did about trying to grow Cryptocoryne elliptica from leaf pullings. Well, this week, one of the...

    Cryptocoryne elliptica spathe

    Look back to the Oct 08 / Nov 08 timeframe to the posts I did about trying to grow Cryptocoryne elliptica from leaf pullings. Well, this week, one of the...

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  • I finally managed to get some pictures of the Cryptocoryne longicauda ‘brown’ spathe. It’s bloomed for me a few times before, but for one reason or another, I never got...

    Cryptocoryne longicauda ‘brown’ spathe

    I finally managed to get some pictures of the Cryptocoryne longicauda ‘brown’ spathe. It’s bloomed for me a few times before, but for one reason or another, I never got...

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